IS Chapter 124

“Palace Master Wei Sheng, now that Yu Ge is dead, is there any way to take us out?”

“Huh? Everyone, what I just said to Real Person Yu Ge was all true and without any deception.” Wei Sheng Xian pointed to the towering barrier, “How can such a chasm be broken by human power? I can’t, can you?”

“…”

At this moment, all directions were dark and silent. Ahead was the eternal barrier, behind was barren land devoid of spiritual energy for thousands of miles, above were heavy clouds about to fall, and below was the surface of the heart beast’s body stretching for thousands of miles.

Beside them was the elusive and scheming Palace Master Wei Sheng, and the violent Second Palace Master Ye Zhuo, whose martial power suppressed everyone. Where to go and what to do was not in their own hands at all.

Truly, there was no way to heaven, and no door to earth.

“Palace Master Wei Sheng! You were the one who brought us here, but now you say we can’t go back. Is there still some unresolved danger?”

“The danger is gone, but Real Person Yu Ge’s obstruction is beyond my ability.” Wei Sheng Xian sighed, “Since things have come to this, if you have no ideas, do you have enough lifespan? I’ll cultivate here for another hundred years, maybe I can comprehend the supreme law of the realm and open this barrier.”

“A hundred years? Then the human and ghost realms will have been severed long ago!”

On the barrier, white mist surged, like layered clouds.

“Such a barrier—” Li Yuan raised his head, looking at the barrier between the two realms.

Ye Zhuo: “More solid than before.”

Li Yuan pondered: “Slightly more solid.”

Ye Zhuo: “?”

“Brother Wei Sheng,” Li Yuan said, “do you really have no other way?”

“Really none.” Wei Sheng Xian said.

Li Yuan seemed satisfied with Wei Sheng Xian’s answer.

“Then I—”

A hand rested on his shoulder.

Li Yuan: “…What?”

So interesting, why doesn’t this person agree?

Ye Zhuo didn’t speak.

“This barrier is indeed a bit more solid.” Li Yuan said, “But perhaps it’s worth a try. Second Palace Master, what do you think?”

Ye Zhuo didn’t think anything.

He pressed Li Yuan’s shoulder, walked forward, then let go, stepping out from the crowd.

The bright red sleeves brushed past Li Yuan’s shoulder and left, the faint lotus fragrance also flashed by as they passed each other.

Li Yuan watched his back.

Everyone only saw the Second Palace Master Ye Zhuo walk forward with his sword, standing at the forefront of the barrier.

Under the dim sky, the magnificent barrier was a expanse of white mist, the yin wind blowing, and the man’s bright red clothes fluttered slowly. Standing alone beneath such an impending sky, he appeared even more insignificant.

Seeing this scene, Palace Master Wei Sheng’s words suddenly echoed in their minds. Indeed, how could such a chasm be resisted or broken by human power?

“What is Second Palace Master Ye Zhuo going to do?”

They couldn’t see his intention, but they felt the surging spiritual power fluctuations on the red-clothed figure.

Ye Zhuo raised his head, quietly looking at the barrier connecting heaven and earth. Between the two realms, an uncrossable heavenly river.

His fingers caressed the sword sheath.

Red lotus flames spread from the hilt to the entire sword body, and a clear, dragon-like sword cry seemed to echo within the sheath.

“Could it be that he wants to—”

Ye Zhuo drew his sword.

The sword body slowly left the sheath, a silence falling, as if one could hear the cold sound of metal and stone. On the sword blade, blood-red light flames spread and flowed.

His eyes looked at the chasm between heaven and earth. The red lotus flames reflected in his eyes, as if burning in the depths of his soul.

Everyone watched his back.

The person holding the sword seemed to be naturally more certain than others. Power was in his hands, on his body, without the need for elaborate schemes or infighting.

If what stood before him was a person, then he would draw his sword against the person.

If what stood before him was the sky, could he also draw his sword against the sky?

The sword was drawn.

That stunning red figure leaped up in full view, slashing out an extremely sharp and blazing sword light!

The sword light came from the three-foot sword blade, advancing unswervingly, slashing towards the bottomless and vast sky.

This sword, like a lightning bolt tearing through the field of vision, finally pierced diagonally through the entire barrier and sky, disappearing into the vast sea of mist.

The entire sky trembled slightly.

It was only for a moment, but it was like a thunderclap. No one spoke, but their hearts were churning, stirring up stormy waves.

The person who had slashed out that sword still looked at everything calmly.

Then, he suddenly smiled calmly.

“It’s nothing more than this,” he said to himself.

—Among the cultivators present, those who used swords, who wasn’t yearning for it, wishing they could replace him?

They spoke of the Heavenly Dao as eternal, but in the end, wasn’t it all for one person’s ascension? What was the point of a lifetime of cultivation? Wasn’t it to defy the heavens and change fate, to believe that humans can conquer nature?

To contend with the heavens, that one tremor was enough.

And in mid-air, the Second Palace Master Ye Zhuo’s clothes fluttered, and he slashed out another sword!

The sky shook again, but he did not retract his sword.

He still had a third sword, a fourth sword, the sword’s momentum rising layer upon layer, becoming increasingly fierce and resolute. Sword after sword, annihilating all phenomena in the world, the red-clothed figure was like a magnificent lotus blooming in heaven and earth, and the thin, sharp, black sword blade was like his Dao. He used this sword to question the sword path, and then to question the Heavenly Dao.

The intensified tremors between heaven and earth brought continuous sounds. The Do Not Long For sword emitted a long Tingsound in its sheath, it trembled slightly, as if urging its master to draw it out. It also wanted to do such an interesting thing, like the sword in the sky.

Li Yuan pressed his own life-bound sword, also looking at that figure, with a focused smile of yearning in his eyes.

“Don’t rush.” Li Yuan said to his life-bound sword, “Let’s learn from him first. Don’t you want to learn from such a good sword?”

Do Not Long For quieted down, radiating a faint light, as if trying to resonate with the Reverse Scale Sword.

Light footsteps came from beside him, it was Wei Sheng Xian coming to Li Yuan’s side. Wei Sheng Xian also looked at that sword.

“Brother Wei Sheng, people are not made of metal and stone.” Li Yuan said, “Tell me, to slash a sword at such a realm barrier, doesn’t it take much more courage than a dragon crashing into a crumbling barrier?”

“I am not a true dragon, I do not know.” Wei Sheng Xian said, “However, I know that it takes much more courage than a realm cultivator using the realm law they have learned for a lifetime to open the barrier.”

“Then you and I are just the same.” Li Yuan said.

Wei Sheng Xian laughed loudly.

Ye Zhuo had already slashed the seventh sword, the earth shaking and the sky swaying.

Wei Sheng Xian gazed at the sky where white mist billowed.

“The Great Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Dao derives forty-nine, and man escapes as one.” He murmured, “Brother Li Yuan, do you think he can escape as one?”

Brother Wei Sheng’s bookishness was truly a buzzkill. Li Yuan only looked at Ye Zhuo and ignored him.

He saw Ye Zhuo stop his sword, and the red-clothed figure in mid-air turned to look back—looking at himself.

Ye Zhuo said to Li Yuan: “Spiritual energy.”

Li Yuan suddenly laughed, he felt his heart beating violently, in an instant the abyss overturned, he poured all his spiritual energy into Ye Zhuo’s body, stirring up his clothes to flutter like raging flames.

“Ah Zhou, how about I also lend a hand?” Wei Sheng Xian said loudly.

Ye Zhuo: “Come.”

Wei Sheng Xian drew his sword, the Jianmu petals on the Late Clearing sword unfolded, the Dao domain of heaven and earth, with all things as chess pieces, instantly enveloped this world, black and white chess pieces chaotically shifting, as if mobilizing the vast rules between heaven and earth—and then, imposed upon that person.

As if Heaven itself lowered its eyebrows, instead helping this person to soar upwards.

Ye Zhuo closed his eyes, on his body, it seemed that a terrifying force had completed its final accumulation.

—When he opened his eyes again, he leaped up into the air, and the final sword slashed out horizontally.

In an instant, all sounds were silent.

The sky trembled with a bang, a sound so crisp that it was almost illusory, in the very center of the barrier, a long crack that stretched across the heavenly abyss opened.

Revealing a line of sky light as thin as a blade.